Example sentences of "been [vb pp] in a [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that Margaret had been illegitimate , a war baby conceived between an Italian prisoner of war and an English landgirl , had no bearing on her name , although probably quite a lot to do with Margaret 's lack of maternalism , since she 'd been reared in a children 's home . |
| 2 | She tells me that Jamie has been caught in a drugs bust at the Cross Keys pub . |
| 3 | He had been caught in a women 's magazine praising Mrs Thatcher . |
| 4 | Even this reduced sentence exceeds , by a considerable margin , the maximum penalty which could have been imposed in a magistrates ' court ( which is where the majority of burglars of this type would normally be tried ) . |
| 5 | The four Synodontis could have been accommodated in a 36″ tank , accompanied by a few Congo Tetras rather than the Tinfoils . |
| 6 | Porter had been raised in a children 's home from the time he was two years old . |
| 7 | From there he 'd been taken in a police van to Whitely by two police officers . |
| 8 | Though the apolitical villain was fairly quickly apprehended , Churchill 's portrait has just been discovered in a police raid on a suspected handler . |